Oranges
by John McPhee
Recommended by Paul Graham and Daniel Pink
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Most Recommended Books, and Food.
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Flo...
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